9th March 2013 - Conway WL9

Last but one time at Conway this year and we were greeted with an nice still day and a little warmer than of late but not much!!!

The result was a mirror of WL7 with Jeff Grantham having the peg Ian S was on last time and making no mistakes with some early F1's and carp long on pellet before they again spooked from the shallow water on the island.

Ian Simpson this time was drawn at the far end and had an all roach net for 39.3lb bar one rogue carp taken on maggot up in the water and wasted some time going for carp that probably cost the overall win.

Barry Davis drew one off the point were Jeff was on WL7 but could only get them in spurts of 2 or 3 as they never settled and appeared to be up in the water for long periods but he did enough with 35.7lb to hold off the fast finishing Rob Dickenson 34.5lb and Billy Gore 31.3lb who were both flying up in the water on pellet in the last hour and with anothr 30mins would have been 1st and 2nd.

With one match to go its a straight head to head for the winter league title between Jeff and Rob with another head to head for third between Ian S and Dougie.

Result
1st - Jeff Grantham - 40.6lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 39.3lb
3rd - Barry Davis - 35.7lb

23rd February 2013 - Conway WL8

Back to Conway for our final three matches in this years winter league and Conway bounced back to its usual 20lb average per man that it has done through this and previous winters. Compared to Blundells at 5lb and plb per man its positively black.

Well it started out looking like Ian S and Barry Davis would run away with it as early F1's and skimmers graced their nets from the shallow water on top of the islands and everyone else was carpless with just the usual roach putting in an appearance. All was looking good for these two until the action slowed and Jeff Grantham threw a bomb into the pole from his peg one off the point and proceeded to bag up for the the next few hours with proper carp. He slowed in the final hour but finished with 72.3lb for an easy win.

Ian S had managed to keep a few F1's coming and along with 10lb of roach took an easy second in the end with 43.7lb. Barry's fish all but dried up but he managed to stay ahead of the pack and finished third with 25.5lb

Result
1st - Jeff Grantham - 72.3lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 43.7lb
3rd - Barry Davis - 25.5lb